Changing Climate

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has surveyed what she called a “surreal, ghostly” scene in a devastated village

Authorities expanded evacuations late Thursday along the eastern edge of the Bootleg Fire, currently the largest in the U.S., and worry it could merge with another blaze.

Farmers, conservationists and small-town business owners are calling for an end to what they call wasteful uses of Colorado River water

A team of Arlington, Virginia, scientists and volunteers went to work before sunrise Thursday, collecting data on heat islands to better understand where people are most at risk during extreme heat waves.

Environmental groups hailed a sweeping $3.5 trillion domestic spending plan announced by Democrats, saying it would make “transformational investments” in clean energy and put the nation on a path to cut greenhouse emissions by at least 50% by 2030.

Approvals for companies to drill for oil and gas on U.S. public lands are on pace this year to reach their highest level since George W. Bush.

Coastal cities across the U.S. are likely to see high-tide floods starting in the mid 2030s as rising sea levels align with a cyclical “wobble” in the moon’s orbit.

Amtrak plans to spend $7.3 billion to replace 83 passenger trains, some of which are nearly a half-century old.

An Associated Press analysis shows that the recent heat wave struck places that are warming up faster than other parts of the United States

Shells discarded by diners are being collected, cleaned and dumped into waterways around the country and the world, where they form the basis of new oyster colonies

As forecasters warned of record-breaking temperatures in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada, officials set up cooling centers, distributed water to the homeless and took other steps.

The grim toll of the historic heat wave in the Pacific Northwest has become more apparent as authorities in Canada, Washington state and Oregon say they’re investigating hundreds of deaths likely caused by extreme temperatures

Intense

Extreme temperatures like the ones blistering the American West this week aren’t just annoying, they’re deadly

Starbucks on Tuesday announced that customers can start using reusable cups again at their company-owned cafes after it paused the program due to Covid-19.

Florida’s manatees are dying at unusually high rates this year, and experts are warning that the sustained loss of a key food source is severely threatening the iconic marine mammals.

George P. Bush has announced his plans to run for Texas Attorney General against current AG Ken Paxton.

At least a tenth of the world’s mature giant sequoias were destroyed by a single California wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada last year, according to a draft report prepared by scientists with the National Park Service.

A new world weather agency forecast says it’ll likely be so hot in the next five years that there’s a 40% chance the globe will push past the temperature limit set by the Paris climate agreement.

The Senate vote on methane is the first official reinstatement of one of more than 100 climate regulations dismantled by the Trump administration.

In an effort to help their audience of at-home cooks be more environmentally friendly, digital magazine Epicurious will no longer share recipes made with beef.

America’s climate summit propelled the world forward on a path toward limiting the worst of global warming

A growing body of work illustrates how wildfire seasons made worse by climate change threaten not just immediate destruction but also long-term health

World leaders have joined President Joe Biden in closing his virtual climate summit. They shared stories Friday of their own drives to break free of climate-damaging fossil fuels. The summit showcased Kenyans leapfrogging from kerosene lamps to geothermal power and Israeli start-ups scrambling to improve battery storage.

Drought conditions now cover 85% of Mexico

The Transportation Department is moving to reverse former President Donald Trump’s bid to end California’s ability to set its own auto pollution standards.

A longtime environmental advocate and Democratic aide has been nominated by President Joe Biden to oversee roughly a quarter-billion acres of federally owned land in Western states.

President Joe Biden is convening a coalition of the willing, the unwilling, the desperate-for-help and the avid-for-money for a two-day summit aimed at rallying the world’s worst polluters to do more to slow climate change

Dozens of celebrities including actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Jane Fonda and Joaquin Phoenix are calling on U.S. President Joe Biden to refrain from signing any environmental agreement with his Brazilian counterpart, Jair Bolsonaro.

Greta Thunberg took a gap year from high school in 2019 to help spread awareness about climate change, and that journey is documented in her new series “Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World.”

When a killer whale circled back toward wildlife photographer Brian Skerry in the middle of the ocean after discarding the giant sting ray it was devouring, panic is not what came to mind: “Part of my brain is thinking I can’t believe what I’m seeing,” recalled Skerry.

President Joe Biden faces a vexing task as he convenes a virtual climate summit on Thursday.

The United States and China, the world’s two biggest carbon polluters, have agreed to cooperate to curb climate change with urgency

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has revoked a series of Trump administration orders that promoted fossil fuel development on public lands and waters

Japan’s famous cherry blossoms reached their peak earlier than ever before this year, with experts suggesting the record-setting date is the result of climate change.

A new study from Climate Central found several sites on Harriet Tubman Byway could face chronic flooding this century.

Dangling tax credits and rebates in his drive to fight climate change, President Joe Biden wants you to trade your gas-burning car, truck or SUV for a zero-emissions electric vehicle.

Pledging to put science above politics, the Biden administration will look back through four years of environmental policies and decisions made by the Trump administration to see where scientific data may have been manipulated or intentionally suppressed.

For the first time, a federal energy board is weighing how a proposed natural gas pipeline would affect emissions.

President Joe Biden’s bid to tackle climate change is running straight through the heart of the U.S. oil and gas industry.

A bill that aims to reduce carbon pollution in part by getting more zero-emissions vehicles on the road has cleared a key hurdle in the Virginia Senate

The United States has returned to the Paris climate accord

Facebook announced that it will now debunk common myths about climate change, further leaning into the arbiter of truth role that the company once renounced.

A new study finds that pollen season and its awful nasal drips is coming earlier and hitting harder — and that’s because of global warming.

A judge says U.S. officials downplayed climate change impacts and other environmental costs from the expansion of a massive coal mine near the Montana-Wyoming border, in a case that could test how far the Biden administration is willing to go to unwind its predecessors’ decisions.

A federal judge has blocked a last-minute rule issued by the Trump administration to limit what evidence the Environmental Protection Agency may consider as it regulates pollutants to protect public health

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that he is donating $100 million towards a prize for the best technology that can capture carbon dioxide.

The Biden administration has suspended new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits on U.S. lands and waters for 60 days as officials move to reverse the energy and environmental policies of the Trump administration

President Joe Biden is moving swiftly to dismantle Donald Trump’s legacy on his first day in office, signing a series of executive actions that reverse course on immigration, climate change, racial equity and the handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Construction on the long disputed Keystone XL oil pipeline has been halted as U.S. President Joe Biden revoked its permit

A federal appeals court has thrown out a rule that made one of the Trump administration’s most momentous climate rollbacks

Swedish teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg will appear on a postal stamp that will be issued Thursday in her native Sweden and is part of a series focusing on the environment

In the closing months of the Trump administration, energy companies stockpiled enough drilling permits for western public lands to keep pumping oil for years

The Arctic and northern Siberia saw the largest temperature surges in 2020, and Europe had its hottest year ever as global carbon emissions continued to rise.

A U.S. judge has refused to halt an oil and gas lease sale for Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that was pushed by the Trump administration in its final days.

The nation’s largest estuary is still getting a D-plus grade for its overall health

The Environmental Protection Agency has released one of its last major rollbacks under the Trump administration

Three centuries ago, much of what is now the southern United States was covered with fire-dependent savannas anchored by lofty pines

It’s been more than two months since violent weather walloped southwest Louisiana, yet the state is still far from being fully recovered.

The huge pandemic relief and spending bill includes billions of dollars to promote clean energy such as wind and solar power.

A British coroner has ruled that excessive air pollution from traffic fumes contributed to the death of a 9-year-old girl who died of a fatal asthma attack

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to rejoin the Paris climate accord on the first day of his presidency as world leaders staged a virtual gathering to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the international pact aimed at curbing global warming

Five years after the historic climate deal in Paris, world leaders are again meeting to increase efforts to fight global warming

Southern California utilities cut the power to tens of thousands of customers to avoid the threat of wildfires as the region found itself whipped by Santa Ana winds that could turn sparks into catastrophes.

The Trump administration has effectively killed a proposed gold and copper mine near the headwaters of the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery in southwest Alaska

President Donald Trump is railing against the Paris climate accord and telling world leaders at a virtual summit that the agreement was designed to cripple the U.S. economy, not save the planet

Down to its final weeks, the Trump administration is working to push through dozens of rollbacks that could weaken century-old protections for migratory birds, expand Arctic drilling and hamstring future regulation of public health threats

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded just under $14 million for an attempt to build a hydrogen-energy production facility at a nuclear power plant in Minnesota with the help of a research lab in Idaho.

The United States has formally left the Paris Agreement, a global pact forged five years ago to avert the threat of catastrophic climate change

Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina have announced an agreement to advance offshore wind development

Crews tried to beat back two out-of-control wildfires in Southern California on Tuesday that have kept tens of thousands of people out of their homes even as another round of dangerous fire weather raises the risk for flames erupting across the state.

Southern California Edison says its equipment may have sparked a Southern California wildfire that has prompted evacuation orders for more than 90,000 people and critically injured two firefighters.

The Trump administration is drawing criticism for an election-year push to portray itself as a champion of a cleaner environment in disadvantaged communities

An icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international effort to study the high Arctic has returned to its home port in Germany

Northern California’s wine country was blanketed by fire again Monday as strong winds fanned flames in the already scorched region, destroying homes and prompting evacuation orders for nearly 70,000 people

Facebook announced Tuesday that it is launching a science information center to provide users with facts and resources around the climate crisis, NBC News reports.

High tides surging from a narrow creek destroyed the car Kathy Blake once parked in her gravel driveway here. Over the past two decades, the water has ruined half a dozen of them. Since October, when one of those floods filled the first floor of Blake’s home with 6 inches of water, she’s been living in a camper with...

A grade for the health of the Chesapeake Bay has dropped from a C to a C-minus in the last year in an annual report

Maryland’s Secretary of the Environment says that the coronavirus pandemic has reinforced the need to transform transportation in the state

Virginia lawmakers have given final approval to a measure that would make the state a full participant in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a multistate carbon cap-and-trade program

The Virginia House and Senate have approved sweeping energy legislation that would overhaul how the state’s utilities generate electricity

Climate protesters plan to disrupt traffic in downtown D.C.

The schools announced their goals Monday in a statement that said they hope to produce zero net greenhouse gas emissions. UVA and William & Mary said they will share information and collaborate.

More than 70% of the island’s land area has washed away over the past 50 years, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation says.